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There's a better theory about the Black Sea... it was once a freshwater lake that got flooded by the Mediterranean thousands of years ago.
That massive flood was the origin of the Noah and Gilgamesh stories.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sea_deluge_hypothesis
The guy who found the Titanic did underwater explorations and found the remains of the original coastline and human habitation 1,000 feet underwater:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngnews/blacksea.html
The problem with the claim that it was the origin of the Noah and Gilgamesh stories are:
a) It happened thousands of years before
and
b) Civilizations tend to build around bodies of water. Bodies of water can flood, sometimes catastrophically.
You really don't need more of an explanation for flood stories than "most ancient people lived near places that could flood."
Doggerland was also flooded and there's also lots of evidence of people before that flood.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doggerland
The rising sea levels in lower Mesopotamia would have been visible on a human timescale. It's not hard to get from "my grandfather lived in a house which is now 100m out to sea" to a mythology that a flood drowned the old world.
Again, catastrophic floods happen all the time. The theory suggests that the Black Sea flood happened in 5600 BCE. The earliest version of the Epic of Gilgamesh we have is from 2000 BCE and the king it was likely based upon lived in 2700 BCE.
Now what is more likely, that a big flood happened not all that close to Sumeria and people kept talking about it for thousands of years or they just lived on the Tigris, which floods all the time and that's where the story came from?
If nothing else, Sumeria was nowhere near the Black Sea. It doesn't even make sense geographically.